Hollywood is smarter than you thought. Whether by design or chance, the 87th Academy Awards elegantly and subtly shifted the tone of the season from a reductive fixation on snubs and fact-checking to a positive celebration of original filmmaking and...

"Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" won the Oscar for best picture at the 87th Academy Awards.
"Birdman" was one of the top winners of the night, also winning for director, original screenplay and cinematography.
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No Oscar night would be complete without the awards that may not generate the biggest headlines but honor the disciplines that are essential to any motion picture.
Despite various calls over the years to streamline the show, the awards for...

The long take of "Birdman" has stretched all the way to the Academy Awards, where the jazzy, surreal comedy about an actor fleeing his superhero past took Hollywood's top honor in a ceremony punctuated by passionate pleas for equality. On a...

The Oscars have problems. We all know that. It's not just about the presentation this year, which hopes to get a boost from Neil Patrick Harris' hosting. This awards season, we've already had plenty of discussions about whether the Oscars properly...

The long takes of Alejandro Inarritu's "Birdman" won out over the long production of Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" at the Directors Guild Awards Saturday. Both formally ambitious in very different ways, "Boyhood" and...

In an awards season dominated by "Boyhood" and "Birdman," the Writers Guild of America on Saturday honored two different choices with their top film awards: "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "The Imitation Game."...

At its annual awards show, one of the final bellwethers before the Academy Awards, the Writers Guild of America honored Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” a quirky fable about a feud over a widow's fortune, and Morten Tyldum's “The Imitation...

How much do you know about this year's class of Oscar-nominated directors?
You can no doubt rattle them off by now: There's Richard Linklater, of the years-in-the-making coming-of-age opus "Boyhood"; Wes Anderson, of the intricately nested...

If you watched the Golden Globes last month, you might remember co-host Amy Poehler joking that Wes Anderson, a filmmaker known for his meticulous, fanciful style, had arrived at the ceremony on "a bike made of antique tuba parts." The camera...

The long takes of Alejandro Inarritu's "Birdman" won out over the long production of Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" at the Directors Guild Awards Saturday.
Both formally ambitious in very different ways, "Boyhood" and...

With the Oscars less than a month away, here's a look at how the best picture nominations are doing at the domestic box office.
"American Sniper"
The war drama is setting box office records, pulling in an estimated $200.1 million in...

The day after Oscar nominations, while clearing away the "Lego" rubble, award season consultants began calling, repeating the same fear-soaked refrain: Beware the Phase Two Harvey.
For the uninitiated: Phase One of the Oscar campaign is earning...

As the adage goes, directing is 90% casting, so it would follow that an equally high percentage of directors make it easier on themselves by casting the same actors again and again. This season, 100% of those re-collaborations have resulted in stellar...

Slow-cooked coming-of-age tale "Boyhood" took the best film and director trophies at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, while Wes Anderson's candy-colored comedy "The Grand Budapest Hotel" won the biggest haul of prizes, with...

It's the most wonderful time of the year with critics' prizes and best-ofs bestowing a bounty of gifts on this year's Oscar contenders. What movies are closing in on a best picture nomination? A look at that race and the contests for original and...

Fox Searchlight knew "The Grand Budapest Hotel" was a great film, but studio executives never imagined it would end up a top Oscar contender.
The Wes Anderson film rolled out in limited theaters last March, just after the 2014 Oscars and long...